Highlights from IHRFG’s 2015 New York Conference

At IHRFG’s New York 2015 conference in July, grantmakers exchanged with and learned from their peers, affirming and challenging their own assumptions, and putting the rights-based approach on trial and encouraging others to critically explore the utility and efficacy of funding through a rights lens.

Visit the IHRFG website for a Storify of tweets from the conference, the complete Twitter conversation about #ihrfg2015ny and a conference video that features funders describing what the rights-based approach means to them and their work.

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